RARE OPERA VIDEOS with SUBTITLES
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All download links were expired, so I re-uploaded to ""Yahoo box".
The contents are not changed. (Nov. 29 2015)All "Yahoo box" lnks were expired, so I re-uploaded to "1fichier.com"
Subtitles for "Le Prophete" was revised. (June 19, 2021)I have found some DVD player and some software can not display the subtitles.
If you find such a situation, please try other tools.
( Or you can try to use "**.sub" files. )I have attached Japanese (and English / Italian) subtitle, for my own sake, to some rare opera videos;
- Meyerbeer "Le Prophete" (NEW !!! June 19, 2021)
- Meyerbeer "Robert le diable"
- Rossini "Mose in Egitto"
- Verdi "Un Giorno di Regno" (revised at Mar 26 2011)
- Einem "Dantons Tod" (revised at Dec. 19 2010)
These operas are not available as commercial DVDs until now October 2010.
Anyone can download split video data from following links, join them with hjsprit, and burn to NTSC DVD.
iOct.17, '10jtools for making subtitles:
Main software to attach subtitle is "Subtitle Workshop".
To convert avi files to DVD format, I use :
"avidemux", "DVDSupEncode", "Muxman", and "IfoEdit".
Applications above are for Windows.
I think there are so many alternative tools.
Meyerbeer "Le Prophete" (Wien 1998)
with French / English / Japanese subtitles
A new version with subtitles for Berthe's suicide scene! (uploaded June 2021)
In my opinion, in spite of the ugliest stage, wonderful singings of Baltsa, Domingo, and other singers have made it clear that this is one of the greatest opera in the 19th century.
I recommend you to check the libretto of the last scene, which is almost impossible to understand with this video.
French libretto of Act 5 is available at:
http://www.kareol.es/obras/elprofeta/acto3.htm
Google auto translation can produce readable English text.I checked the timing French caption with vocal score.
Diacritical marks had to be removed from French caption data.
I once asked via youtube about the lyrics which seem not to correspond to the libretto, but words of Berthe's suicide scene were only partially found. So this caption lacks some words.
If possible, please tell me the entire words of Berthe's suicide scene.English subtitle was prepared referring English translation by Richard Arsenty.
Japanese subtitle was translated from English subtitle.To check the quality of picture/sound, youtube files, which were uploaded to ask the lyrics, are available:
Pastral in Act 2 :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmRMnHPrpuo
Berthe's suicide scene in Act 5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJkw8B1XQUAJean : Placido Domingo
Fides : Agnes Baltsa
Berthe : Viktoria Loukianetz
Comte d'Oberthal : Davide Damiani
Zacharie : Franz Hawlata
Mathisen : David Cale Johnson
Jonas : Torsten KerlConductor : Marcello Viotti
Director : Hans Neuenfels
Vienna Staatsoper, May 24, 1998Download link Prophete.zip. file size : 3.18GB : A new version with subtitles for Berte's suicide scene!
720 x 480, NTSC DVD 4:3 29.97fps, 256kbs, 2 hours 53 minutes.
The zip file can be unzipped to subtitle data files and "VIDEO_TS"folder.
"Prophete_F.sub" is for French, "Prophete_E.sub" is for English, and "Prophete_J.sub" is for Japanese.
These data are enclosed for reference use."VIDEO_TS" folder is ready to be burned on a DVD disc.
To burn DVD, ***.sub files are not needed, so only the "VIDEO_TS" folder is OK.
The DVD lacks menu, but subtitles are selectable.
French, English, Japanese subtitles are each assigned to stream 1, 2, 3.
To select subtitles, please push "subtitle" button (or something like that) on the remote controller while playing.@
Meyerbeer "Robert le diable" (Paris 1985)
with English / Japanese subtitles
Source:
Antenne2 Broadcast.
Picture is dark but good.To make subtitles, I used;
(A) French libretto:
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Robert_le_Diable_(op%C3%A9ra)
(B)Vocal Score with with Italian words and a new English adaptation by John Oxenford:
https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.action;jsess\
ionid=FB514B062FAAFD0CA41F07D0239E8027?institutionalItemId=7442
All scenes in the video can be found in (B).
(A) lacks some scenes, for example, conversation between Isabella and Alice in the Act 4.
Japanese subtitle is mainly based on the result of French-English auto translation of (A).
English subtitle is mainly based on (B). I refered also (A) to simplify the text.
These subtitles are for those who don't understand French, and are not unfamiliar with this opera - as I was.
Of cource you can switch off the subtitle of my broken English.
L'Opera de Paris 1985
conductor : Thomas Fulton
Rockwell Blake (Robert)
Samuel Ramey (Bertram)
Walter Donati (Raimbaut)
June Anderson (Isabelle)
Michele Lagrange (Alice)Download robert_sub.zip ( file size : 2.7GB )
720 x 480, NTSC DVD 4:3 29.97fps, 256kbs, 2 hours 52 minutes.
The zip file can be unzipped to subtitle data files and "VIDEO_TS" folder.
"robert_E.sub" is for English, and "robert_J.sub" is for Japanese.
"VIDEO_TS" folder is ready to be burned on a DVD disc.
To burn DVD, ***.sub files are not needed, so only the "VIDEO_TS" folder is OK.
The DVD lacks menu, but subtitles are selectable.
English, Japanese subtitles are each assigned to stream 1, 2.
To select subtitles, please push "subtitle" button (or something like that) on the remote controller while playing.
Rossini "Mose in Egitto" (Naples 1993)
with English / Italian / Japanese subtitles
Source:
RAI Broadcast.720 x 480, NTSC DVD 4:3 29.97fps, 256kbs, 2 hours 32 minutes.
The zip file can be unzipped to subtitle data files and "VIDEO_TS" folder.
"mose_I.sub" is for Italian, "mose_E.sub" is for English, and "mose_J.sub" is for Japanese."VIDEO_TS" folder is ready to be burned on a DVD disc.
The DVD lacks menu, but subtitles are selectable.To burn DVD, ***.sub files are not needed, so only the folder is OK.
Italian, English, Japanese subtitles are each assigned to stream 1, 2, 3.
To select subtitles, please push "subtitle" button (or something like that) on the remote controller while playing.Mose in Egitto (Rossini)
Mose: Roberto Scandiuzzi
Faraone: Michele Pertusi
Amaltea: Gloria Scalcchi
Elcia: Mariella Devia
Osiride: Rockwell Blake
Aronne: Ezio di Cesare
Amenosi: Antonella Trevisan
Mambre: Enrico CossuttaMaestro direttore: Salvatore Accardo
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo
TEATRO DI SAN CARLO (Napoli) 1993Download mose_sub2.zip ( file size : 2.74GB )
I made Japanese subtitle from English translation attached in Philips CD 420 109-2.
Italian caption:
Libretto I got from web differs from that in Philips CD at many points.
I corrected only when I convinced that the CD text coincide with the sung text.
Diacritical marks had to be removed.English subtitle:
Except adding hyphens and commas, and changing order of a few sentences, I made no intentional change to English translation by LIONEL SALTER attached in Philips CD, though typing errors may remain.
I do not know even how to obtain permission, but I hope the translater will admit my attempt.
Verdi "Un Giorno di Regno" (Parma 1997)
with English / Italian / Japanese subtitles
I checked timing with vocal score ;
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/bhq6630/index.html
-- accuracy is limited by many factors.
Diacritical marks had to be removed from Italian subtitle (caption) data.English subtitle was prepared referring English translation
by Martin Sokol attached in Philips CD 422 429-2.
I do not know even how to obtain permission,
but I hope the translater will admit my attempt.I improved Japanese subtitle referring the English translation.
720 x 480, NTSC DVD 4:3 29.97fps, 192kbs, 2 hours 2 minutes, 2.8GB.
Download Regno97.zip ( file size : 3.18GB )
The zip file can be unzipped to subtitle data files and "VIDEO_TS" folder.
"Regno_I.sub" is for Italian, "Regno_E.sub" is for English, and "Regno_4.sub" is for Japanese.
These data are enclosed for reference use."VIDEO_TS" folder is ready to be burned on a DVD disc.
To burn DVD, ***.sub files are not needed, so only the "VIDEO_TS" folder is OK.
The DVD lacks menu, but subtitles are selectable.
Italian, English, Japanese subtitles are each assigned to stream 1, 2, 3.
To select subtitles, please push "subtitle" button (or something like that) on
the remote controller while playing.Giuseppe Verdi
Un giorno di Regno
Parma, 19 December 1997Marquise del Poggio - Anna Caterina Antonacci
Giulietta - Cecilia Gasdia
Edoardo de Sanval - Cesare Catani
Chevalier Belfiore - Paolo Coni
Gasparo Antonio della Rocca - Bruno Pratico
Baron de Kelbar - Alfonso Antoniozzi
Delmonte - Demetrio Rabbito
Comte Ivrea - Carlo BosiOrchestra - Orchestra Sinfonica dell Emilia Romagna <Arturo Toscanini>
Chorus - Cooperativa Artisti del Coro di ParmaConductor Maurizio Benini
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Gottfried von Einem "Dantons Tod" (Wien 1963)
with German / English / Japanese subtitles
Black and white, monaural sound.
DVD format with German/English/Japanese subtitles ready to burn.
(German/English/Japanese subtitle text data are also enclosed.)German caption:
Umlaut marks and eszets are mechanically replaced to 'ae', 'oe', 'ue', and 'ss'.
In complicated conversations I omitted some lines.English subtitle:
I made English subtitle refering English translation by Ruth and Thomas Martin, which is attached to ORFEO CD C 102842 H. I changed some phrases to "word for word" ones.Japanese subtitle:
I made Japanese subtitle, refering Japanes translation of Buchner's drama
(translated by Tatsuji Iwabuchi, Iwanami-Bunko edition).
I revised it refering English translation.Click HERE and download "danton3.zip" .
file size :825 MB
720 x 480, NTSC DVD 4:3 29.97fps, 192kbs, 1h36m30s.
Total 825MB zip file can be unzipped to subtitle data files and "VIDEO_TS" folder.
"danton_G.sub" is for German, "danton_E.sub" is for English, and "danton_J.sub" is for Japanese.
"VIDEO_TS" folder is ready to be burned on a DVD disc.
The DVD lacks menu, but subtitles are selectable.
To burn DVD, ***.sub files are not needed, so only the folder is OK.
German, English, Japanese subtitles are each assigned to stream 1, 2, 3.
To select subtitles, please push "subtitle" button (or something like that) on the remote controller while playing.Georg Danton: Eberhard Wachter
Camille Desmoulins: Donald Grobe
Herault de Secheles: Paul Spani
Robespierre: Gerhard Stolze
Saint Just: Hans Christian
Herrmann, Prasident das Revolutionstribunal: Hans Braun
Simon, Souffleur: Karl Schmitt-Walter
Ein junger Mensch: Karl Equiluz
Erster Henker (1st executioner): Karl Terkal
Zweiter Henker (2nd executioner): Josef Knapp
Julia, Gattin Dantons: Helly Spittler
Lucille, Gattin Desmoulins: Sonja Schoner
Eine Dame: Edith Vonkilch
Simons Frau: Elizabeth HongenRegie: Otto Schenk
Buhnenbilder: Walter Dorfler
Kostume: Hill Reihs-GromesVerstarkter Wiener Staatspernchor (chorus master Wilhelm Pitz)
Wiener Symphoniker
Ferdinand LeitnerLive Rec: Wiener Festwochen, Theater an der Wien, June 15, 1963
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